IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 208398 accession number: C.701 & A-2016 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 17 February 2016 updated: Wednesday 16 November 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain tea pot, painted in blue, green, yellow, pinkish-purple, red, brown, and black enamels, and gilt. The globular body stands on a footring and has a short cylindrical neck, a slightly curved, upward tilting spout, and a loop handle. In the wall behind the spout there are five holes in a circle to emit the tea. The low domed cover has a ventilation hole and a knob in the shape of a flower on a stem with two small leaves. The underside of its rim, and the exterior of the flange which fits inside the neck of the pot are unglazed. Both sides of the body are decorated with the same Chinese garden scene with a woman standing by a fence, and a woman and a boy standing beside a table. On the cover there is a fence beside a curving tree, and an insect. The exterior of the knob's petals are red. Gold bands encircle the neck and edge of the cover, and there is a gold leaf on the back of the handle and two leaves on stems on top of the spout. object type: soft-paste porcelain teapot painted on both sides in polychrome enamels with two Chinese women and a child in a garden title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Professor Shon Ffowcs-Williams STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/208398 SUBJECTS ------------------- Chinese lady Chinese child Chinese lady Chinese child TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain category: teaware DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Worcester Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.1 dimension: Length units: cm value: 18.5